Why did GAIJIN decide to put all F-5s as premium and event?
Being an aircraft desired by the community at the time, it was a selfish and greedy act on GAIJIN’s part to make most of the F-5 family premium or event versions and only leave us with a single version of this one.
Premium: F-5C, F-20A
Event: F-5A
Tech Tree: F-5E
Yes, of course, they’ve added a lot of versions to the tech tree for foreign nations instead of the home nation, and I don’t see myself developing an entire nation just to play an aircraft I’m interested in. As in China that is a “copy-paste” nation, I prefer to play the Soviet nation.
I think that F-5A should had been a tech tree aircraft as it was the first iteration of the freedom fighter/tiger family and then F-20A should had been also a tech tree aircraft or at least a squadron vehicle.
Because now, is virtually imposible get the F-5A since it was an event aircraft you cannot get it once it is gone ((without giving your 3 months’ salary to GAIJIN to acquire the plane at auction) and F-20A which is an expensive pack that if you buy it you probably are not gonna eat during the week.
America just didnt use the F5 variants that we have in game very much or for very long and the ones that were used were almost exclusively in service with aggressor squadrons, so for gaijin that makes for a perfect event/premium vehicle
The F-20A is not part of the F-5 series imho, it’s its own aircraft based on the F-5 Airframe
The F-5 was largely exported, believe it or not, and America didn’t really use it as much save for aggressors
All?..
…cause you literally contradict yourself right here ^
And you’re not even correct either lol
… isn’t that why you grind TTs? To play stuff you’re interested in? Or are you one of those people who go straight to top tier because muh meta!
Simply, why do you care for the F-5A? The F-5C is marginally better, and the A variant can be acquired in other TTs. The F-5A was added as an event vehicle because the F-5E was already in the US TT, and why would you want to have to grind that to get the E for another 250k RP?
If you really care so much, you should’ve grinded the F-5A(G) Event. Lucky for you, iirc it’s still pretty cheap on the market. Beggars can’t be choosers
That’s a SV as you mention , which is not premium and practically is grindable as well… you just need to play the game and wait.
So you don’t have to pay. Now if anyone picks to pay, that’s a choice.
No offence here.
My only grippe here is the NF-5A , which is practically the best F-5A version , with leading-edge slats and more powerful engines and gets AIM-9N which is a better 9J , in 10,7 - same BR with the other 5As.
because F5C was so good everyone pees themselves when they see F5 so snail wanted more money
and now we got many F5’s that are completely useless because they are too high in br
honestly it feels like everytime snail adds a f5 it uses a RNG machine for its br
Technically we also had them in use with tactical fighter training squadrons, but that’s for training foreign F-5 squadrons. It’s the same deal with F-104Gs as well.
Nothing, I assume the person who made the post either isn’t a native English speaker or used AI cause
(AI for translation, you can tell it’s a human-written post due to some terms used)
That just doesn’t read very non-translated English
No offense to the original poster ofc
Also
They wrote it like they were asking advice on how to fly the Tigers
They probably will eventually, but tbf you can tell from the title
“A quick question about flying Tigers”
Flying is not capitalized, and there’s no ‘the’ before it, so at first glance it seems like they’re talking about the AVG, but you can tell that’s not what they’re meaning to talk about
Well, literally you understoodd it in your own way 'cause it is clearly or can be understood that I’m talking exclusively on the USA tech tree, not other nations in the game.
Event vehicles are commonly:
Barely used in the nation (see Obj279, Obj292)
Used in a nation not ingame (see F-5A(G), F-14A IRIAF)
Or prototypes (see Leopard 2AV, XM8)
So yeah, it makes sense the F-5A is an event vehicle
If you want one just suck it up and grind China or buy the F-5A(G) (which, btw, is the best F-5A ingame currently if I’m not mistaken), or preorder the NF-5A
Sorry, I come off as rude in text because I have issues with tone. I’m not intending to be rude
For reference
This, I was being rude, but those are also your only real options here if you want one
This was also just me being rude, but once again, your only real option if you want one
The rest of it might read rudely, but I’m not trying to be rude
Whiter than snow actually
Yet it is an event aircraft from like 2 or 3 years ago (don’t cite me), which back then it would’ve been pretty much the same thing as the JAS-39A and JAS-39C is now. Gaijin is much more open to pissing off the playerbase nowadays
It took me a year to reach top tier US, I don’t play to grind anymore so I get why people don’t want to spend a long time playing TTs, it’s just that most of the time a vehicle someone wants is why they play the TT, like how I’m grinding Japan rn specifically for the F-15J.
For reference:
I play the most efficient route to reach what I want, so like for the R2Y2s I only had 2 lines researched, and so on and so on
While sure, they could have, but the F-5A served as a very easy and recognizable airframe to make an event with, and the F-5C was the highest US Prem for a while, which is why it was added. I think it was the highest until either La Royale or when we got the F-16C, I can’t remember.
If we’re going to get a TT F-5A, it’ll probably be an F-5B instead and we can’t get any non-event F-5As due to US having no current subtrees (and not needing any either)
Fun fact actually, brain size isn’t a very great measure of intelligence. You can tell someone wouldn’t be intelligent if they were missing part of their brain or something though
Also finally, for reference my stance isn’t “loser LOL get rekt” it’s “why do you want one in the US TT when you get a much better version already in the TT (save for weight / turnrate) and all that adding the A would do is inflate the TT”
I wouldn’t be opposed to getting one, I just don’t think it’d be a great addition
For fun, when I go back to play with planes whether to farm SL or just have fun I usually play lower BR variants of a plane that I enjoy and know how to play. just in the case with MiG-21, I usually play with the SMT instead of the bis 'cause it is in a more comfortable BR.
That would be the case with owning F-5A being lower doesn’t mean is “garbage”
I wanted to give the title of the post a lil bit comically, I ask for pardon for my grammar since is not my native language.
